DESGN-6720-1: Context: Type Survey History
Spring 2022
- Subject: Graduate Design
- Type: Seminar
- Delivery Mode: In-Person
- Level: Graduate
- Campus: San Francisco
- Course Dates: January 18, 2022 — May 08, 2022
- Meetings: Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 140
- Instructor: Lizzie Baur
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 8/12
Description:
Course DescriptionAs graphic designers, we must confront vast amounts of information and data and synthesize it into a meaningful “story”—manipulating language and image in both virtual and physical forms. This course will be a forum for discussing the role of the archive as a tool for artistic research as well as a medium in itself. We will examine the impulse to collect and the archive as a site for creative practice—look at artists and designers who collect, juxtapose and curate found objects—probe the relationship between collecting and exhibition practices—and finally, delve into the world of the database, digital archives and internet artifacts. This course will involve lectures, readings, screenings, site visits, and one final deliverable—a self-directed curation or “table setting” of objects from your personal physical or digital archives. Students will submit a weekly written report critically assessing some aspect of the readings or materials viewed.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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